Central Desktop Blog | Smarter Collaboration

Here are some types of emails you definitely should not send, as well as some other types of email that you either should always send or never send… depending on the expert you’ve asked.

Too much reliance on data can harm creativity, but big data offers some real benefits to marketers who can find the middle ground.

Work distractions are nothing new, but lately they’re multiplying like Gremlins (kids: Gremlins was a 20th century motion picture). In the old days, you maybe had an office chatterbox or two; today, every office chatterbox in the world is hanging out on your computers and phones. What’s the effect of all this noise?

Peter Shankman is a seasoned entrepreneur and the author of the new best-seller “Nice Companies Finish First: Why Cutthroat Management Is Over – and Collaboration Is In.” Citing everyone from Tocqueville to Harold and Kumar, he builds a case that the era of egomaniacal CEO-dictators is over, while benevolence and collaboration will guide tomorrow’s companies to prosperity. Too good to be true?

Chess Media Group’s new survey digs into how businesses are incorporating social and collaboration tools while tackling new business processes and work policies like BYOD.

The Wall Street Journal posted a provocative piece yesterday: “Why Aren’t Smartphones Making Us More Productive?” In it, business editor Dennis K. Berman cites a drop in annual productivity growth since 2004, saying it’s “as if a time-wasting flock of Angry Birds has buried productivity like a worm.”

A new book by Sarah Miller Caldicott details the four phases of team collaboration success from Thomas Edison’s labs.